Orcs and Goblins Update: More Black Orcs painted

I have been painting quite much lately but it feels like nothing gets finished, and sometimes is feels like that. This time it's probably because I've painted a lot of base colours for some of my models. 11 more Empire Halberdiers, 3 Mortar crew members and 5 Greatswords. But this is a O & G update so what have I been doing with them then? Well not much really, I focus a lot on my Empire army right now before the new AB is released and I will probably focus even more on it after that when I paint all the new stuff.

But here and there I squeeze in some models from the other armies and this time it's Black Orcs. Some of you may remember my old posts showing the first two test models for my BlOrc unit and that I was still undecided which route I want to go. Well I tried the middle road and here's the result.

Sorry for the poor quality on the pics, sometimes I just can't take decent pictures. I like these more than the test models but I'm still undecided on this colour scheme. I may be going with red instead of green but I don't know. Comments, criticism and ideas are very welcome, should I go with this green or go with red instead?

That's all for O & G for know but I will continue to make these little updates for them.

News: Monstrous Arcanum

Even more news, now from Warhammer Forge and their next coming book Monstrous Arcanum. After reading through Tamurkhan I must say I'm quite excited for this book as well even if I feel that it probably won't be as useful (like having an official Chaos Dwarf army list. But non the less it seems like they continue to have really high quality on their books with beautiful illustrations. Will wait with buying it though as the new Empire stuff will eat through my already starving wallet. Down below you can see what they say about the book on the Warhammer Forge webpage.






This is the eagerly-anticipated first book in a new series from Warhammer Forge, and as its name suggests Monstrous Arcanum deals with a veritable carnival of monsters both arcane and bloodthirsty. Within this 113 page, full-colour hardback book, you will find 32 new monsters – nightmarish horrors and noble beasts, creatures of magic made flesh and the victims of terrible curses inflicted by dark powers – presented in the form of Binding Scrolls for use with any Warhammer army. 

These are not limited to just Storm of Magic games, however, as the book contains nine scenarios and special rules to allow these deadly creatures to be fielded in regular Warhammer battles, and a helpful appendix chart to allow you to theme your monsters to your army.

Lavishly illustrated throughout with some of the finest artwork yet produced by Rhys Pugh and Sam Lamont and presented in gold-inlaid leather effect binding, Monstrous Arcanum takes the form of a detailed bestiary of these infernal and terrible creatures, and also contains new magic items and artefacts alongside a short narrative campaign. Our Visual Feed channel on youtube also has an interview about Monstrous Arcanum with Alan Bligh.
 
This fantastic book will be on sale in limited numbers at the Forge World Open Day on Sunday 1st April, and is also available to pre-order now for despatch from the 10th April.

News: Pictures of the new Empire stuff!

At long last we got some pictures scanned from the next WD. The pics comes from Warseer as usual and is posted by a fellow Swede Anardakil, thank you very much for these! Original post is found here.

Comment: OMG! I love all this stuff, have already pre ordered the book, withchunter, 2 boxes of Demigryph Knights, 1 War altar and 1 Hurricanum/Luminark. Will buy more of the other stuff later on and maybe I will get something for my birthday as well. If it is one thing I think they could have done a little better is to make the War Altar chassi more different from the magic chariots. I was a bit unsure on the large new Griffon model but the more I look at it the more I like it. Now I think it looks awesome and I'm really looking forward getting all this stuff.

News: More info about the new Empire stuff!

Copied from a post on Warseer by Estel.

Empire Army Book (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April
• 96p Full colour, Hardback Army Book.
• Essential guide to the Empire army including background, new rules, Army List, artwork and miniature gallery.
• Every Character and Unit in the Army Book is available to buy!
• Contains rules for brand new ‘never seen before’ miniatures.


Plastic Kits


Karl Franz on Deathclaw (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April
• This box contains a multipart plastic kit that makes one of THREE different models; Karl Franz on Deathclaw, Empire General on Griffon or Amber Wizard Lord on Griffon.
• Assembled kit is huge- 6” high and 9” wide.
• A centerpiece kit that will appeal to both gamers and modelers/painters alike.
• Kit contains lots of extra pieces i.e. Multiple Chest plates and heads for the Griffon and more.




Empire Celestial Hurricanum / Luminark of Hysh (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April


• This box contains a multipart plastic kit that makes one of Two different models; or the.
o The Celestial Hurricanum: A rare choice for the Empire Army or a mount for a Celestial Battle Wizard Lord.
o Enhances the armies fighting abilities, spell casting and can create enchanted storms!


Or


o Luminark of Hysh: A rare choice for the Empire Army or a mount for a Light Battle Wizard Lord.
o Creates a magical enchantment that protects nearby troops and helps disrupt enemy spell casting and can fire deadly beam of light at the enemy!


• A centerpiece kit that will appeal to both gamers and modelers/painters alike.
• Each kit contains lots of extra parts e.g. Light and Celestial Battle Wizard lords, Acolytes etc.
Volkmar the Grim on The War Altar of Sigmar (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April


• This box contains a multipart plastic kit that constructs the mighty War Altar of Sigmar.
• Standing 7” high it is a centerpiece kit that will appeal to both gamers and modelers/painters alike.
• The War Altar is a Lord choice as it can be a mount for either Volkmar or an Arch Lector.




Empire Demigryph Knights (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April


• This box contains enough multipart plastic pieces to assemble three Demigryph Knights- Elite Monstrous Cavalry that are a Special choice in the Empire Army Book.
• The kit allows you to model the rank and file Inner Circle Knights or a full command group or a mixture of both.
• The kit allows them to take lances or a cavalry Halberd.


Empire Master Engineer (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April


• Plastic Frame Clampack that contains one Master Engineer.
• The Master Engineer is a Hero Choice in the army.
• The Master Engineer is easy to assemble and can be assembled in different ways.


Captain of the Empire (ideal Premium/Hobby Account new release product) - Released 7th April


• Plastic Frame Clampack that contains one Captain of the Empire.
• The Captain of the Empire is a Hero Choice in the army.
• The Captain of the Empire is easy to assemble and comes with 2 heads to choose from.


if already added sorry :D

Comment: Awesome stuff! Two mage chariot thingies as rare choices as well as Character mounts, three different riders for the griffon, and both Arch Lector and Volkmar. Demigryph Knights sounds awesome as well with a new weapon option it seems, cavalry halberds! Also really looking forward the smaller kits with plastic Captain and Master Engineer, can't wait to see some pics! 

News: List of all the new Empire stuff (with teaser trailer)

Taken from post from Bobske on Warseer confirms what we will get in the next Empire release which will happen April 7th with Pre orders up March 31st.


Posted by Bobske 26-03-2012, 12:29

ok let's make some people happy
The store order list

7th of April, new stuff
Empire Army book 33 EUR
Karl Franz on Death Claw 1 fig. plastic 43 EUR
Empire Celestial Hurricanium/Luminark of Hish 1 fig. plastic 39 EUR (no clue what it is but I guess something like the new VC thingymagic)
Empire Demigryph Knights 3 fig. plastic 43 EUR
Captain plastic 1 fig. 10,5 EU
Engineer plastic 10,5 EUR
Volkar on war altar plastic 1 fig 39 EUR
witch hunter 1 fig resin 13 EUR
Markus Wolfhart 1 fig resin 13 EUR
Empire amber wizard 1 fig resin splash release 13 EUR
Warrior priest 1 fig resin 13 eur

pfff, I took my bike to the city on my day off, for you guys, so hope you enjoy
I reallt want to see pictures now and I'm not a WHFB player and do not like the Empire
Well we'll just wait until someone receives his WD subscription (mine almost always arrived after it was in stores so I cancelled it  

 Comment: So excited by this and don't know how I will afford all of the stuff I want (which is pretty much all of it). Most stuff we had rumours about before but now we know the names on the Magic "altars" which have rather odd sounding names but I'm pretty sure they will look awesome. Demigryph knights is a must buy and a lot of other things like Karl Franz on Deathclaw and Volkmar, strange that they use the special character names for these as rumours suggests them to be generic kits. Well we have to wait for pics now which I'm most excited about. Also very pleased to see a Witch Hunter model! We haven't heard this before and hopefully there will be an entry for them in the AB as well. Now I can't wait to see some pictures.

EDIT: And here's the teaser trailer from the Games Workshop blog. 

First five Greatswords, incl. command finished!

My first five Greatswords are finished at last. As you may have seen before I went with a little bit different color scheme. Ostermark is usually purple and yellow but also purple and white, so I went with this and painted their feathers different, and I think this turquoise color looks nice and fits with the rest of the models. These first five took some time to finish actually, but the command group usually does, and the standard bearer especially. 

And this particular standard bearer took some extra time because of an mishap. After the quickshade had dried and I was about to spray him with Anti-Shine, and I gave the banner one coat to much. The banner now looked terrible and the surface looked warped. I was so angry and tried to fix it as soon as I could and therefore I have no pics of how it looked. I needed to scrape the anti-shine off as good as I could and repaint some parts. You can still see some irregularities on the surface but at least I could save most of it, and it looks good again in my opinion. That's all for now, next time there's Black Orcs!

General of the Empire on Griffon Finished

So at last the whole model is finished, and it was actually quite fun to paint. Don't know why it took so long for me to start up painting it. Well now it's done and I went with a hat for the General. It was actually one of the things that took me some time with the General. I just couldn't decide if I wanted to go the easy road and just take the head from General/BSB kit which I haven't used on any model yet. Or if wanted to make a new helmeted one. I actually went with the second option, but it didn't turn out as I wanted so I went with option number one anyway. And I know, a hat that large with feathers and everything should blow away when the General and is Griffon is flying high up in the sky. But I actually came up with a good explanation for this.... the Hat is magical and stays on his head as long as the General wants, easy as that. Problem solved.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out and it feels nice that it is finally finished, hope you like it as well and as always comments and criticism is very welcome.